Mango RED's extraordinary imagery

THIS post is not about Beatriz Saw, the Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 winner which Kristian and an Inquirer blog wrote about. It concerns, rather, a blog put up by a Naga and now Manila-based outfit that specializes in wedding photos.

Bea's photo is merely incidental, simply because I think it is by far the best available of her -- courtesy of Randall Dagooc, the person on top of the award-winning Mango RED team.

Being one of the regular contributors to our Planet Naga aggregator, I have been intrigued by the extraordinary wedding imageries conjured by Dagooc and his collaborators -- the only photoblog in our aggregator's stable of bloggers.

So at around lunchtime, I found time to check the weblog itself, and found out they have more in their nifty flash-loaded website here, photos for the 2006 Miss Bicolandia beauty pageant contestants among them. And although she did not win that one, Bea Saw stood out mainly because of her recent PBB2 feat.

I will urge you to do the same because there's more your eyes can feast on, including six fantastic albums set in flash whose pages appear real-like you can practically leaf through them.

Mango RED's philosophy, I think, is captured by this line taken from its brochure:

These are not the images we want to capture but life itself. Our images are an eclectic mix of stolen and posed portraits, which reveal with delicacy the complicity of the bride and the groom, perhaps an alchemy which holds to the evoking of a romantic secret place auspicious to lovers.

Their services, though, don't come cheap. A basic coverage package starts at P55,000.